Health quality of life Health Status Questionnaire, Short Form (SF-36). The SF-36 (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992) is a 36-item instrument with 8 multi-item scales: (1) physical functioning; (2) social functioning; (3) role limitations due to physical health problems; (4) role limitations due to personal or emotional problems; (5) general mental health; (6) vitality; (7) bodily pain; and (8) general health perceptions. Subscale reliabilities have been above 0.8 in multiple population studies conducted on adults. It has successfully been used to evaluate functional status in depressed, chronically ill, and healthy individuals (Wells et al., 1989).